{"id":610570,"date":"2026-02-23T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/610570\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:06:16","slug":"rhule-wants-qb-leadership-to-evolve-naturally-but-affable-colandrea-handling-early-stages-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/610570\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhule wants QB leadership to evolve naturally, but ‘affable’ Colandrea handling early stages well"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Photo: Steve Nurenberg\/Icon Sportswire, Getty)<\/p>\n

It used to be a common story\u00a0wondering how a newcomer\u00a0might fit into a roster. How fast could they catch up to the culture and be one of the guys with their new teammates?<\/p>\n

While that probably still exists to a lesser degree, we’re not exactly driving\u00a0in that same neighborhood\u00a0anymore.<\/p>\n

As Matt Rhule<\/a><\/b> quipped on Thursday, there sometimes seems to be as many announcements from guys who are … staying. In a time of constant movement it’s news sometimes when a player just\u00a0says he’s\u00a0planning to keep the\u00a0same apartment\u00a0key.<\/p>\n

However you feel about it all,\u00a0there could be a usefulness to it for a quarterback looking to come in and quickly lead despite not having sweated through\u00a0the same mat drills 12 months ago as some of his locker room mates.<\/p>\n

“There’s not many teams playing in the College Football Playoff that aren’t playing with a transfer quarterback,” Rhule said. “It might still feel weird to us but it’s the new normal for these kids.”<\/p>\n

In the case of Nebraska’s new transfer quarterback, senior Anthony Colandrea<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0this spring\u00a0is more opportunity to grow in that role without it being forced either. The head coach knows it’s better to just let it evolve. Such is the plan here in the 2026 edition of Nebraska<\/a><\/b> football. And the new QB seems to be rolling right along with\u00a0it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo: Steve Nurenberg\/Icon Sportswire, Getty) It used to be a common story\u00a0wondering how a newcomer\u00a0might fit into a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":610571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-610570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116120334836632527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}